Oaxaca City
This textile museum promotes Oaxaca鈥檚 traditional textile crafts through exhibitions, workshops, films, presentations and a library. Themed selections from its stock of around 10,500 Oaxacan and international textile pieces, many of them a century or more old, are always on view. There's a top-quality crafts shop here too.
One-hour guided visits are given at 5pm on Wednesday, in English and/or Spanish.
Museo de las Culturas de Oaxaca
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Got two hours? You'll need it for the Museum of Oaxacan Cultures, housed in the beautiful monastery buildings adjoining the Templo de Santo Domingo. This鈥
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The former capital of the Zapotec people is today an illustrious ruin, but for over a thousand years it served as the second-largest ceremonial site in鈥
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Gorgeous Santo Domingo is the most splendid of Oaxaca鈥檚 churches, with a finely carved baroque facade and nearly every square centimeter inside decorated鈥
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Second only to Monte Alb谩n in their importance, though not as old, the ruins of ancient Mitla date from the final two or three centuries before the鈥
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Centro de las Artes de San Agust铆n
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Pretty San Agust铆n's large, early-20th-century textile mill has been superbly restored as the Centro de las Artes de San Agust铆n (CaSa), a spectacular鈥
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Visitors flock to the village of El Tule to behold El 脕rbol del Tule, which is, by some counts, the fattest tree in the world. California's General鈥
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Housed in the restored Ex Convento de San Pablo (a 16th-century Dominican monastery), the impressive San Pablo Center stages concerts, films, exhibitions,鈥
2. Catedral de Nuestra Se帽ora de La Asunci贸n
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Oaxaca鈥檚 cantera stone cathedral is suitably massive and old, but in a city as culturally rich as Oaxaca, it is arguably only the third most impressive鈥
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A 19th-century wonder of marble and murals, the State Government Palace occupies the 窜贸肠补濒辞's southern flank. The large, very detailed stairway mural 鈥
5. Museo de Arte Contempor谩neo de Oaxaca
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Exhibitions of first-rate contemporary Mexican and international art in a beautifully revamped colonial house.
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The second exhibition space of leading commercial gallery Galer铆a Quetzalli.
7. Museo de los Pintores Oaxaque帽os
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Changing exhibitions by artists from Oaxaca and elsewhere 鈥 often provocative contemporary work.
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This commercial gallery presents a wide range of quality art, and includes a room devoted to surrealist painter Rodolfo Morales鈥 work.